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Star power: 20 years after final game in Minnesota, memories of North Stars haven't faded

Fargo - It was an atmosphere unlike anything that Lou Nanne has seen – before or since – in his long career in hockey.

• Video of final two minutes of North Stars' last home game
• Mike Modano
• Plenty of factors can be blamed for North Stars' departure

Plenty of factors can be blamed for North Stars' departure

Fargo - Former Minnesota North Stars player Jim Archibald admits that it’s “mind-boggling” to think that a professional hockey team couldn’t survive in the “State of Hockey.”

• Jon Casey

Twins looking to develop their own ace

Fargo To see the impact an ace can have on a pitching staff, Minnesota Twins general manager Terry Ryan won’t need to look beyond his own division this season.

• Pitcher Alex Meyer

Longtime Spuds coach Quenette dead at age 79

MOORHEAD – Bill Quenette played for and coached with many of the big names to walk the football fields and basketball courts in Moorhead. And when his career was finished, he had built a reputation unlike any other.

• Bill Quenette

Wild's Cullen feels sense of urgency to start fast in a shortened season

Fargo - The National Hockey League season doesn’t even start until Saturday. Yet players like Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen are already feeling a sense of urgency.

• Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen
• Wild's Bouchard ready to return from concussion
• Wild expect sellout crowd Saturday as NHL returns

Ex-Spuds standout Jason Blake hopes NHL career isn't over yet

Fargo - At 39 years old, Jason Blake has spent much of the offseason looking back on a National Hockey League career that has spanned 13 seasons.

• Former Moorhead High School standout Jason Blake

Will any player get the call to the Hall today?

FARGO – Today marks the unofficial start of the 2013 baseball season. But will Baseball’s Hall of Fame voting announcement change anyone’s life?

• Former Montreal Expos outfielder Tim Raines

Frisco not the first rodeo for FCS championship coaches

FARGO – For the North Dakota State and Sam Houston State football coaches, the best preparation will be derived from experience.

• North Dakota State head coach Craig Bohl
• NDSU, Sam Houston State return from short holiday breaks

NDSU, Sam Houston State return from short holiday breaks

FARGO – North Dakota State and Sam Houston State wasted little time during the holidays. Both teams returned to practice Wednesday, just 10 days before the two teams will meet for the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision title on Jan. 5 in Frisco, Texas.

• Sam Houston State head coach Willie Fritz

Missed opportunities in first half cost Bison

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – With just more than seven minutes left in the first half of Monday’s college basketball game at top-ranked Indiana, Mike Felt’s jump shot pulled North Dakota State within 24-18.

Columns

Goethe: Oft-injured stars are back, but optimism isn't with Twins

Fargo - Sure, Nostradamus offered predictions on the end of the world and some of society’s great tragedies.

• Joe Mauer
• Twins boast plenty of flexibiilty heading into season

Goethe: Twins should be sellers, but I bet they won't be

You have to know when to hold them and know when to fold them. With Major League Baseball’s trade deadline arriving today, folding is the strategy that I think the Minnesota Twins should employ.

Goethe: Lately, fantasy beats football reality

Fargo For more than four months, most of what we’ve seen of the NFL is footage of players and executives in suits coming in and out of meetings.

Goethe: NFL lockout's impact on fantasy football already being felt

Fargo - There is one group of people that might not miss the National Football League: bosses.

Goethe: Mauer’s value sits at catcher

It was an odd sight last week. Footage of Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer fielding ground balls at first base drew all sorts of reactions from a fan base that has grown more cynical as the season wears on.

Goethe: Improving landscape bolsters WInnipeg's NHL chances

FARGO - Fargo-Moorhead could find itself smack-dab in between two National Hockey League markets.

• The Winnipeg Jets

Goethe: "Target" practice in AL Central, but will division catch up to Twins this time?

FARGO - Entering the 2011 season, there’s a different feel in this part of Twins Territory.

• Joe Nathan leaves the mound in 2010
• Twins hoping to shake Yankees hex next time
• Morneau tells Gardenhire he's ready to go for season opener

Goethe: It took awhile, but Baseball Hall of Fame voters get it right with Blyleven

I made the joke Wednesday afternoon that Bert Blyleven will sure have a lot of time on his hands now that he doesn’t have to spend so much time pumping up his own candidacy for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Goethe: Peterson shakes fumble struggles en route to big season

How many times did you hear one of your friends scream, “Hold onto the ball!” during last season’s regular season and playoff run by the Minnesota Vikings?

Goethe: FCS Dakota schools left their impression on Brewster era

North and South Dakotans should feel just a little guilty. After all, didn’t their institutions of higher learning have a little something to do with the dismissal of University of Minnesota head football coach Tim Brewster on Sunday?